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With the exponential growth in the wearables market, manufacturers of electronic components are designing smaller, more powerful products such as accurate sensors and high-resolution digital displays that are kick-starting the future of virtual reality.

A Digital Wallet for Smarter Spending
The smartphone conveniently combines a plethora of daily tools, from calendars to cameras, into one hand-held device. In the past five years, many new and established tech companies have been investing in developing tools to include digital wallet features onto the ever expanding list of smartphone capabilities.

You’re choosing an SD card for your industrial application, but are not sure if it’s going to get the job done. Sound familiar? You’re not alone.
Most SD cards on the market are designed for purely consumer usage (think digital cameras). Because of this, they’re generally made to handle different stresses than those found in industrial applications. Data integrity is important, of course, but not nearly as critical as in industrial usage. So, these cards tend to prioritize storage volume and price over long-life performance.

A nice switch feel won’t matter much if the switch doesn’t work reliably for the life of the device.
The best tactile switches will typically offer a life expectancy measured from 100,000 to more than a million press-and-release cycles. Like force and travel specifications, the predicted lifecycle for every electronic switch is readily available on its datasheet.

As of February 2014, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has instituted a new listing process (click here) that requires companies to declare compliance with the terms and conditions in the Bluetooth Trademark License Agreement and Bluetooth Patent/Copyright License Agreement. Each declaration must contain a Qualified Design ID (QDID), Declaration ID, and a list of product(s) using the qualified design.